• Was a Flemish painter.
• Painted animals, hunting scenes, market scenes and still lifes.
• He was one of the earliest specialist animaliers and he is credited with initiating a wide variety of new still-life and animal subjects in Antwerp.
• Snyders became a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1602.
• He travelled to Italy Rome in 1608-9.
• Jan Fyt was a student, and then assistant of Snyders from 1629.
• The displayed image is a crop from: Ceres and Pantry, 1620 by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders.